Friday, August 16, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-8
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Israel Ministry of Posts Issues
Stamps for New Year, Pioneers
So. Africa Jews
Need More Unity
Between Sects
ADL Study Teaches Youth Desegregation
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) —
The need for cooperation of all
segments of South African
Jewry emerged as the dominant
theme of the Federation of.
Synagogues Conference.
In spite of recent controversy
between Orthodox and Reform
Jews here, South African Jewry
remained a united community
in which the Orthodox could be
The Israel Ministry of Posts has an-
expected to cooperate with oth-
nounced the forthcoming issue of a series
er Jewish religious groups in
of three commemorative postage stamps
all matters other than theology
in honor of the Jewish New Year 5724
and worship, the conference
(top), and a commemorative postage stamp
concluded.
honoring the "Year of the Pioneers" (right)
Rabbi Samson Weiss, execu-
in recognition of 80 years of Jewish agri-
tive vice-president of the Union
cultural settlements in Israel. The theme
of Orthodox Jewish Congrega-
for the New Year stamps was taken from
tions of America, who was a
the book of the prophet Jonah (chap. 1,
guest speaker at the conference,
verses 4 and 17; chap. 4, 8) : "and Jonah
told the delegates that, although
was in the belly of the fish . . ."; "and
Orthodox Jews cannot allow
the sun beat upon the head of Jonah . . .";
Reform Jews "to adulterate our
"and there was a mighty tempest in the
Judaism," they must keep hate
sea . . ." The pioneer stamp bears the sym-
from marring their attitude to-
bolic design of a hoe clearing a field of
ward Reform Jews.
thistle.
Although many of the dele-
gates endorsed the Johannes-
burg Beth Din (Jewish Religi-
ous Court) ruling that coopera-
tion with Reform Jews in the
religious sphere was impossible,
they deplored the bitterness in-
Fred A. Ginsburg, of 680 of the Detroit Committee for jected into the controvery by
Whitmore, prominent Detroit the Chaim Weizmann Research some members of the South
insurance executive, founder Foundation in 1942.
African rabbinate.
and head of the Fred A. Gins-
For a number of years he
burg Co., died Sunday at the headed the services division of
the Allied Jewish Campaign, Israel Contributes to
age of 72.
Funeral services were held and was campaign co-chairman UN for Settlement
at Brown Memorial Chapel of in 1946.
of Ruanda Refugees
Temple Beth El Tuesday.
On Oct. 30, 1942, he authored
GENEVA, (JTA) — Israel
Surviving him are his wife, a guest editorial for The Jew- handed over a $2,000 special
Mignon; three daughters, Mrs. ish News on the subject "The contribution to the emergency
Meaning of Brotherhood." In it fund of the United Nations
he emphasized the significance High Commissioner for Refu-
of the Allied Jewish Cam- gees, for the resettlement of
paign's inclusion that year in refugees from Ruanda in Tan-
the National War Chest.
ganyika. The gift was presented
to the Deputy High Commis-
sioner by Eliahu Tavor, first
secretary of Israel's permanent
mission to the United Nations
in Geneva.
Expressing his appreciation
for the gift, the Deputy High
Commissioner described Is-
ALBANY, N.Y., (JTA) — rael's act as "exemplary," in
New York State Education view of the fact that Israel is
a small country and is itself
Commissioner James E. Allen,
having its own problems of ab-
Jr., sustained a complaint by sorption and resettlement of
nine parents that use of the
fourth stanza of "America" as immigrants.
part of a devotional exercise in
public schools was a violation
of the Supreme Court bans on
religious activities in such
schools.
LATE FRED A. GINSBURG
The nine parents, a cross-
Lewis J. (Lenore) Ruskin, section of religious faiths in
Mrs. Herbert (Mignon) Scott Levittown, L.I., had protested
and Mrs. Gerald N. (Suzanne) the opening exercise program
Gatarsky; a brother, Edward adopted by the Levittown
Ginn, and nine grandchildren. School District last September,
after the June 1962 Supreme
A graduate of Detroit Col- Court ruling which banned
lege of Law in 1915, he entered prescribed prayers in New
the insurance business shortly York State public schools. The
thereafter.
exercises included the stanza
He was a member of Temple which begins "Our father's
Beth El and of many local and God to Thee." Dr. Allen said
national movements and or- that the anthem could be sung,
ganizations.
read or recited at patriotic or
Mr. Ginsburg was a distin- ceremonial occasions, but he
guished Jewish community formally set aside the Levit-
town board's order as constitut-
leader for many years.
He was one of the organizers ing "a daily religious exercise."
Fred A. Ginsburg Dies; Leader in
Insurance Field Was Active in AJC
Even when school desegrega-
tion is accompanied by com-
munity disorder, "young chil-
dren of both races seem able to
learn without any physical or
emotional injury or collapse,
given . . . initial good health
and a functioning school sys-
tem."
This is one of the findings of
the first psychiatric study of
the effects of desegregation on
participating Negro and white
students in the South.
The study, which has been in
process for two years, was con-
ducted by Dr. Robert Coles, a
psychiatrist of Atlanta, Ga. A
summary report, titled "The
Desegregation of Southern
Schools: A Psychiatric Study,"
was published by the Southern
Regional Council and the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith. It deals primarily with
six and seven year old element-
ary school students in New Or-
leans and sixteen and seventeen
year old high school students
in Atlanta. Supplementary eval-
uations were also made in de-
segregated schools in Charlotte,
Asheville and Burnsville, North
Carolina; Clinton and Oak Ridge,
Tennessee; and Little Rock,
Arkansas.
Among the major findings
are:
Some "segregationist" chil-
dren change their attitude
toward Negro children after
attending school with them
for a year.
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ance in white schools "stress.
ful but not incapacitating."
White children in desegre-
gated southern schools suffer
no "medical or psychiatric
damage" and no "breakdown
in ability to work, study and
get along with friends."
Children of both races con-
tinue their studies "without
impairment."
From an academic view-
point, desegregation is easier
in elementary grade schools.
Dr. Coles attributed changed
attitudes in some white children
to "getting to know a particular
Negro child," and "thinking
about the problem because they
were part of a desegregated
school."
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feelings of understanding from
a people who have known their
share of grief and suffering,"
was expressed by the Yugo-
slav Ambassador in London,
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